Partners

CFH Clearing is an award winning straight-through processing (STP) venue for tier 1 liquidity, providing multi-asset execution, Prime Brokerage services and trading technology to institutional clients including banks, brokers, professional traders, white label partners and fund/investment managers. With more than $1.5 Billion in Interbank credit lines, CFH Clearing connect to tier 1 banks globally and allow clients to trade with those banks through their choice of Prime Broker or via a margin account held with CFH Clearing. The business has grown from inception to now having over 400 institutional clients and broker partners worldwide.

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Founded in 2008, CFH Clearing is part of the CFH Group which also includes CFH Systems and Tradimo

CME Group is the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, handling 3 billion contracts worth approximately $1 quadrillion annually (on average). The company provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers, bringing together individuals, companies and institutions that need to manage risk or that want to profit by accepting risk. Their exchanges – CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX – offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group also offers a growing slate of cleared OTC products and services.

CME GLink is a customer-managed connectivity solution providing access to the CME Globex platform along with access to CME Clearing production environments from within the CME Group’s Co-Location / Data Centre facility (“CME DC3” in Aurora, Illinois). Beeks Financial Cloud is an authorized CME Group Service Provider Partner, approved to manage and offer space to customers at CME DC3, and additionally provide CME Market Data via CME GLink. These services allow our customers to enjoy the lowest latency connectivity possible.

Equinix enables the interconnected enterprise to directly connect its employees, partners and customers to what they need, in the right context, using the devices, channels and services they prefer wherever they may be. The result: extraordinary experiences for your customers, high engagement for your employees, top value for your shareholders and exponential growth for your business.

FastMatch is an Electronic Communication Network (ECN) for foreign exchange trading. The ECN is based on the technology underpinning the world’s largest Equities crossing system, the Credit Suisse Crossfinder matching engine. This market tested technology gives FastMatch an incredible speed advantage and has the capability of handling thousands of clients simultaneously, processing hundreds of millions of orders a day; all with a round trip average speed of 200 microseconds and 50 microsecond standard deviation. Clients include retail brokers, institutions, banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms. All FastMatch clients can view quotes and trades with both price and size in real time. Execution is fair and objective, matching trades according to strict Price/Size/Time priority; passing price improvement to the taker.

FastMatch operates 3 independent matching engines globally: London (LD4) and New York (NY4).

Beeks Financial Cloud is cross-connected to the FastMatch matching engines in Equinix LD4 and NY4.

FXCM Pro operates FXCM Prime, which caters to those customers who need market data and execution access across multiple trading venues, and who wish to settle such activity in one, centralized source, through one account.

FXCM Prime’s proprietary back office collects all trades done across a variety of ECN and single bank trading venues, providing clients a holistic view of their positions. Pre-trade and post trade credit checks ensure efficient and effective allocation of net open positions (NOP).

Beeks Financial Cloud is cross-connected to the FXCM Pro ECN in Equinix NY7.

FXone is a decentralized, Smart Order Router that connects to one or more liquidity providers (LPs), and includes the most advanced GUI / spreadsheet engine available today. FXone is combined with an Order Management System that sits on top of its technology in any colocation. FXone can also sit on top of third party technology where only a GUI is required.

FXSpotStream (FSS) is a bank owned consortium operating as a market utility, providing the infrastructure that facilitates a multibank API and GUI to route trades from clients to Liquidity Providers. FXSpotStream provides a multibank FX streaming aggregation and a matching service supporting trading in FX Spot, Forwards and Swaps and Spot Precious Metals. Launched in December 2011, FXSpotStream eliminates the costs of execution for price takers and offers banks and clients the ability to communicate bilaterally and in a fully transparent manner. Clients can access a GUI or single API from co-location sites in New York, London and Tokyo and have the ability to communicate with all Liquidity Providing banks connected to the FXSpotStream Service. FXSpotStream does not charge brokerage fees to its clients or Liquidity Providing banks. In addition to not charging brokerage fees, data or hosting fees, FXSpotStream allows its clients to connect one time to one API or GUI and trade with as many banks as the client has a relationship with.

Gold-i is the world leader in trading systems integration, with a global client base consisting of some of the world’s fastest growing and most prestigious retail FX brokers. The company has been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation (2014) in recognition of its market leading products, excellent client service and commitment to pushing boundaries within the industry, helping retail brokers worldwide to manage their risk more effectively and become more profitable.

This “ecosystem” of electronic platforms and agency execution services enable institutional FX market participants to execute trades using the optimal electronic platform or agency service to achieve the best result.

GTX ‘s ECN dedicated liquidity management team supports clients by actively monitoring and managing the universe of counterparties that each participant faces. This active approach enables clients to better understand and optimize their trade executions on the ECN.

Matching Engines: GTX operates a matching engines in New York (NY4) and London (LD4). Additional matching engine is planned in Tokyo (TY3) in the second half of 2016.

Market Data: GTX market data is available via FIX 4.4 and standard ITCH-compatible binary protocols as well as leading edge binary protocols, including GTTP. All market data is provided free to GTX clients.

These capabilities and other Hotspot features were revolutionary when first introduced and they continue to set the Hotspot marketplace apart from other platforms. Hotspot’s electronic foreign exchange marketplaces offer benefits to foreign exchange traders, which has resulted in its growth into the top rank of FX multibank platforms.

Beeks Financial Cloud is cross-connected to the HotspotFX matching engines in Equinix LD4 and NY4.

Interactive Brokers LLC is an automated global electronic broker that caters to financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and sophisticated risk management tools at exceptionally low costs. Interactive Brokers provides professional traders and investors with electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and mutual funds on more than 100 exchanges and trading venues around the world from a single IB Universal Account™. Employing proprietary software on a global communications network, Interactive Brokers is continuously integrating its software with a growing number of exchanges and trading venues.

Interactive Brokers LLC is a registered Broker-Dealer, Futures Commission Merchant and Forex Dealer Member, regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and other self-regulatory organizations. Interactive Brokers does not endorse or recommend any introducing brokers, third-party financial advisors, service providers, or hedge funds, including Beeks Trading Corporation Ltd. and its affiliates. Interactive Brokers provides execution and clearing services to customers. None of the information contained on this site constitutes a recommendation, offer, or solicitation of an offer by Interactive Brokers to buy, sell or hold any security, financial product or instrument or to engage in any specific investment strategy. Interactive Brokers makes no representation, and assumes no liability to the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on this website. For more information regarding Interactive Brokers, please visit www.interactivebrokers.com.

Servicing funds. banks, brokerages, asset managers and proprietary trading firms, the company offers an anonymous, regulated and rules-based trading environment with strict price and time priority order execution at ultra-low latency. Clients benefit from access to real-time streaming market and trade data, which enables the control of execution quality and total trading costs.

Saxo Markets is the institutional division of Saxo Bank Group. We serve institutional clients through main institutional centers in the UK, Denmark and Singapore where most institutional clients are on-boarded. The group operates under a strong regulatory framework with significant geographic reach. Saxo Bank A/S is a fully licensed Danish bank under the supervision of Danish FSA. Saxo Bank A/S is subject to stringent financial reporting requirements under EU directives and specific regulations regarding client handling.

Low latency, co-located connectivity to tier 1 bank and non-bank liquidity providers in the three major liquidity data centers: NY4, LD4 and TY3. Trading accounts can be made available on all major ECNs, and via a number of highly popular algo-trading platforms.

Beeks Financial Cloud is cross-connected to Saxo Bank in Equinix LD4 and NY4.

Spotex is a Proprietary Institutional Foreign Exchange (FX) ECN, focused on improving Foreign Exchange trading for both the Buy & Sell Side participants. Spotex developed intelligent exchange technologies that build and apply quantitative metrics to participants based on their trading behavior. Highlights:

Multiple Prime Broker clearing model

Pure exchange; does not participate in trades

Liquidity consists of banks and non-banks

100% anonymous trading venue

Market makers may stream directly to exclusive retail brokers

Allows last look market making with limited response times

Central Limit Order Book

Proprietary Smart-Matching Algorithms

Volume based brokerage discounting on a per million basis

Beeks Financial Cloud is cross-connected to the Spotex matching engine in Equinix NY4.

Sucden Financial has been offering institutional FX for over 30 years and is a leading eFX liquidity provider to a wide variety of clients, including retail brokers, banks, hedge funds and corporates throughout the world.

Our financial strength and long standing banking relationships mean we are uniquely positioned to offer superior liquidity and more focused pricing to all of our institutional FX clients along with a wealth of knowledge, experience and technological know-how that is synonymous with the Sucden Financial brand.

Beeks work with some of the largest venues, exchanges and tech providers in the industry.

About Us

Beeks Financial Cloud is a UK-based low-latency service provider for institutional capital markets. With nine data centres globally and low-latency connectivity between sites, Beeks Financial Cloud focuses on reducing barriers to entry and time to market for institutional clients trading forex/futures and equities.